Students with Disabilities

Cal Transitions is our comprehensive program offering assistance with every aspect of finding and keeping a job. For more information, visit the Cal Transitions website.

Specialized advising is available in the Career Center to discuss disability or health-related concerns regarding your job search. Call 643-8492 or send an email for more information.

The Career Center's Information Lab has the following publications of interest to students with disabilities. All resources are located on the open shelves in the Minorities, Women and People with Disabilities section:

• A World of Options: A Guide to International Exchange, Community Service and Travel for Persons with Disabilities
• Career Information Binder: Persons with Disabilities
• Disclosure of Disability During the Job Search Process
• Guide: SSI/SSDI Work Incentives for People with Disabilities
• Job Search Handbook for People with Disabilities
• Learning a Living: Your Career and Finding a Job for Persons with Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorder and Dyslexia
• Living Well with a Hidden Disability
• Making Self Employment Work for People with Disabilities
• No More Job Interviews: Self-Employment Strategies for People with Disabilities
• Preparing for An International Career: Pathways for People With Disabilities
• Take Charge of Your Workers' Compensation Claim: An A to Z Guide for Injured Employees

To keep informed of the recruitment efforts of employers and other Career Center information, join the Students with Disabilities & Cal Transitions mailing list available via CareerMail.

The Lois I. Hogan Endowment provides a $1000 grant each year for a student with a disability who is in need of financial assistance in order to gain work experience while at UC Berkeley. A student is eligible to apply who is currently working or has been offered a student job or internship (paid or nonpaid). Grant application deadline is mid-April. For an application, send an email request to Rachel Klein, or call 642-0909.

The Career Center has an Accessible Workstation equipped with assistive technology software. This includes the screen reader Window Eyes, the voice recognition software Dragon Naturally Speaking and TextHelp Read&Write which is a toolbar combining a dictionary, thesaurus, grammar checker, word predictor, homophone support, OCR, and many other features.

In addition, the Career Center can provide physical assistance in the Information Lab and possibly arrange for alternative formatting of resource materials. Sign language interpreting services may be provided upon advance request for job fairs, career forums. Contact Patrick Civello for further information.